Art Spotlight

Lexicons of Color and Form

THE CANVAS-June 2011  by Britta Konau Carol Bass, Dyan Berk, Ellen Rich Each of the three artists presented here has developed an abstract vocabulary of shapes, colors, and lines that is personally meaningful to her. Carol Bass, Dyan Berk, and … Continue reading

Anticipation of Becoming

THE CANVAS-March 2011 by Britta Konau Amy Wilton, Karen Lewis, Jocelyn Lee  While the Canvas has been focused mainly on painters, this issue marks the expansion of the concept of a canvas as a support for artwork in a variety … Continue reading

Interstices: Found & Formed

THE CANVAS-January/February 2011 by Annaliese Jakimides Katrine Hildebrandt, Sage Lewis, Daniel Minter “A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.” —Alexander Smith

Winter Landscapes

  THE CANVAS-November/December 2010 by Annaliese Jakimides Andrea Peters, Tom Curry, Chris Huntington “Nothing is worth more than this day.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other Worlds

  THE CANVAS-October 2010 by Annaliese Jakimides Robert Van Vranken, Nicole Duennebier, & Alison Hildreth “With our thoughts we make the world.”Gautama Siddhartha Untitled (Gulf of Alaska), 2008, oil and paper on board, 37” x 42”

Off the Grid

    THE CANVAS-September 2010 by Annaliese Jakimides Elizabeth Cashin McMillen, Greg Day, Ragna Bruno “Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering…”Francis Bacon Elizabeth Cashin … Continue reading

Familiar Places

  THE CANVAS- August 2010  by Suzette McAvoy Bjorn Runquist, Connie Hayes, Philip Frey “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”-Henry Miller Bjorn Runquist, Breakfast at Moody’s, 2009, oil on linen, 24” x 30”

Numinous Skies

  THE CANVAS- June 2010  by Suzette McAvoy Colin Barclay, Sean Beavers & Lisa Creed “He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.” -James Joyce, A Portrait of … Continue reading

Fertile Ground

  THE CANVAS- May 2010 | by Suzette McAvoy Ingrid Ellison, Mary Barnes & John Knight “The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, … Continue reading

Created Worlds

CRAFT OF MAINE-April 2010  by Suzette McAvoy Sara Crisp, Meg Brown Payson & Penelope Jones “The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” -Henry … Continue reading